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The river press., 1887-07-27
,,,,o wool situation East and West

uosont state of the wool market, /!
lng tso Chicago Wool Journal, is quite
F''~octad. Trade is stagnant, prices
fnohp hpnoed, and the aggregate weekly sales
iitbs tbe leading distributing markets Of the
NV nearly as small as would be
''. .o+od in mid-winter. The causes which
pr combined to bring about the present
nnotion in trade are many. The i'm
P'a4 rtonce of any one alone would be insig-
P.eoont Money is close; trade in wool
-. 80 backward, and prices as whole no
.4+or than last year; consequently man
soo+urers are buying with more than or
5;norv caution and only sufficient Tor i'm
,odiate wants. No inducements can
L.r,nt them to lay in any stock for the fu-
.,,rn They do not expect much lower
rcos, but, seeing no probability for an
Sdrance. they choose to wait. They fur
.Lor labor under the delusion that an I'M
Itold amount of wool is in weak hands
throughout the west, and that continu-
orca Of the present dullness will result in
sarious break in the interior. In this,
70 think they will be disappointed. There
:. No accumulation of wool anywhere.
Clocks are light in Boston, New York,
Philadelphia and Chicago. At interior
roints the wool is better distributed and
= the hands of stronger holders than we
have ever known. There is likely to be
ooual Disappointment on the part of buyers
mbo are waiting for break, and sellers
wbo are holding for an advance. The con-
di+ions are such as preclude any extreme
anctuation either upwards or downwards.
The general business prospects of the
country are excellent-good crops, and
less arrangement of labor than last year
IN would be unreasonable to expect the
rooIen interest alone to languish. We
lok for a revival Of activity as soon as
;uvers and sellers get through waiting fol
he impossible to occur. Prices will not
dcline-prices will not advance. So soon
as buyers and sellers realize this, business
vii revive Two weeks may bring the
dsired change. The longer it is delayed
tp more violent will be the reaction wher
it 3Omes.
The river press., 1887-07-27
The Militia.

The first regiment of Montana militia
hasjust been organized at Helena and is
composed of the following companies; A
BE and G of Butte; G of Helena; D of
Virginia City; and E of Dillon. The off
cets of the regiment are as follows:
Colonel IS. J. Reynolds, Butte;
Lieutenant-Colone Ross Deegan, Hell
na;
Major-David Lamont, Dillon;
Surgeon (Major)-Dr. Schmalhausen,
Virginia City;
Adjutant Holmes, Butte;
Quartermaster- Fred. Loeber, Butte.
The river press., 1887-07-27

run, but the Indian looked feet Of foot,
and happy thought struck him. Going
down into his pocket he fshed out two
silver dollars. The Indian could not talk
English, but he knew the coins. Taking
them in his hands he uttered one more
ugh" stuck his weapon in his belt and
walked off, his example being followed by
the doctor, who still has the skeleton.
The moral of the story is that the Indian
has great reverence for the bones of his
ancestOrsn
The river press., 1887-07-27


, The Pioneer Press tells this story on DR..
anderson of the Manitoba who has been
! ! me city for some days: "WhiIe in the
unity OF Poplar river agency and near
y ;. 'ne Indian burial ground, DR.. Hender-
on vu 'nought it good opportunity to pro-
sa alo a skeleton. So he hunted out good
/ ipe0linen, and quietly deposited the bones
ans Dag which he hung over his shoulder,
oaaa: searted out OF the cemetery" Pro
hun b1ihg leisurely along, kicking different
ipa 80 = OUT fthe dirt and mentally diagnos-
grnf eT saI anatomy, he was stopped with q
Ind;. ogh'" and looking up he saw live
d tow, pointing at the bag and fiourishine
'aaWk DIR. Henderson started Ii
The river press., 1887-07-27
Death of Bishop seghers.

Special to the River Press.
HELENA, July q. Bishop Brondel has
received dispatch conforming the report
of the death of Arch Bishop Seghers, in
Alaska published in the press kilograms
yesterday. The Bishops dispatch says the
eminent missionary was wounded while in
Alaska, 500 miles up the Yukon river, and
died from the effects of his wounds on
November 28th, 1886. So remote is the
scene of the tragedy that it has taken all
this time for the news of the event to reach
the civilized world.
The river press., 1887-07-27
How Fast Track Has Been Laid.

The Canadian Pacific, says the indie
pendent, now has the record of laying
more miles Of track in one day than was
ever accomplished before or since-over
X miles. This was a squirt, and the fol-
owing record furnished us by Col. Dodge
shows that in the week on which the big
days work was done the average was
small as compared with the five miles per
DAY which the Manitoba has been making
lor week or more past. Following is the
Canadian Pacific record for the week
named
1888
The river press., 1887-07-27
of for Alaska.
Special to the River Press.

Special to the River Press.
HELENA, July 21.-Senators Cameron,
Farwell and Vest accompanied by their
ladies and ex-Gov. Hauser, left last even
ing for the Alaskan tour. Mrs. Hauser
had intended to go but finally concluded
that her health would not permit the un-
dertaking. The party will probably be
joined at Portland by Senators Plumb and
Allison. The trip will last until about
August 7th, when some of the party will
return to Helena with Gov. Hauser and
remain some time.
The river press., 1887-07-27
A Fortunate Brakeman once ofscranton, Pa.


Mr.. Frank Corcoran, in the employ of
the Ill. Central r. r., in this city, was in
terviewed. He drew $4,000 on two-tenths
Of ticket No. 1886, which took the second
capital prize of $4,000 in the Louisiana
State Lottery in the drawing of May 10th
He takes his good fortune as matter of
course, not being elated thereby. He was
we'll off financially before. He expects to
continue right along as he has been for
years, brakeman on the steam trucks. He
is a batchelor 48 years old, is of Irish par
entage and came from Pennsylvania in
1852. He has two brothers and two sis
ters in Scrantan, Pa, all in easy circum-
stances-Cairo Qll) Argus, May %.
The river press., 1887-07-27
Horses lost or Stolen.

Lost three horses. thirty miles north OF Fort
Assnniboine, on May 30th, which have probably
been stolen. One bay horse, years old, weight
1000 pounds, branded figure on right shoulder:
one bay mare. seven years pld. weight 1000
horse, 5 years old. weight about 900 pounds,
branded inverted on left hip. suitable re
ward will be paid for their recovery or informa-
ton that will lead TO the sane. address
). VI MCKEE, F5rs A4sinniboine. M II.
The river press., 1887-07-27

pY REASON OF ITS FAVORABLE SITUATION at the head
regards Northern and Eastern Montana
it's ready accessbybeng point all trails eadFot Benton
plainly marked this section the
chief distributing shipping point Of the northwest Cheap
assurance of this result
railroad will be completed Fort Benton before
August beginning
rapid growth development Being the commercial emporium
transportation territory will
speedily already good way, Northern
gdoned will hold the
has, railroads. first occupation the
Territory by white
Benton will
great reservation through which
miles,
railroads The the entire
700 miles immediate vicinity,
will be the livel in Montana
surrounding country with the development
begin inducements all There better opportunity for
n northwest The
tributary territory correspondence
D. G. BROWNE, Secretary.
The river press., 1887-07-27
He Didn't Write it.

CoNcoRD, N. H., July 20. United States
Senator Chandler says he never wrote or
inspired the letter recently attributed to
him in which he was represented as favor
ing Blaine and Sherman as the republican
presidential ticket.
The river press., 1887-07-27

al Inc record above noted has been beaten
sa4 atl hollow" by the Manitoba, which on
saturday, an last laid seven and one-fifth
Llles bale OF track. Supt. Eagan says he will
Jeat this record by laying ten miles in one
Uay before the summer is over.
The river press., 1887-07-27
Got His Deserts.

WAsHINGrov, July 20. Oscar j. Harvey,
the treasury department forger, this after
noon pleaded guilty and was sentenced
to twelve years imprisonment at hard
labor.
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w. CRANE
JUSTICE or THE PEACE
AND
Notary Public

s<ss1 Prousrr attention given TO all Business |
urYErNsted " me. !
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Ewes for sale.

The undersigned has 5000 TO 5000 high bred
ewes for sale in number TO suit the purcha sar :
&c d bargain; or will trade for wethars Adj
dreas, j. T. ARLINGTON, Cora
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1887-12-07
A New Life-Saving Station.

PORT TOWNSEND, Dec. 2.-There ar
rived this morning on the OLympidn
Lieut.. Chas. A. Mcclellan, inspector
Of life-saving stations, Major Blake
ney, superintendent of the 18th dis
trict lIfe-saving service, and Mr.. Won
Boyer, civil engineer. They were re-
ceived by Capt. Russell Glover. of the
revenue cutter OliCer WOicOtt. who
took them on board that vessel and
proceeded down the straits to Neah
bay. Lieut.. Mcclellan is under in
structions from the chief of the life
saving service, Summer /. KImball, 10
report upon the practicability of re-
moving the station now at the Indian
village to Wa-adah island, which is
nearly opposite.
Where the station is now situated
it would be an impossibility to launch
life-saving boat in case of di, aster
to a vessel, owing to q ledge OF rocks
which make off from the station sea
ward. The placing of the build
ing in q position where the boat
could not be used has been a
matter of conjecture TO all who
are acquainted with maritime mat.
tiers, and who have the interests oi
the seafaring class at heart. Every
mariner who enters and departs from
the straits knows that at Neah bay il
located life saving station, and be,
lieves that in time OF disaster the
life boat would be manned and i'm
mediately sent to the relief of those
in imminent danger.
What would be their astonishmeni
If they knew that although the sta.
ton is kept in first class order by
keeper KoOpman, and the boat is in
its place, it could moi be launched ex.
cepting In the smoothest of wealth
er, on account of the ledge of rocks
The island already referred to be-
longs to the war department, and af-
ter Lieut.. McLellan's report has been
acted upon by the secretary OF the
treasury, a site will be asked for from
the war department and a new sta
tion built.-TGcOmd Ledger Special
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1887-12-07
Resolutions c. R. r. p. U.

AT a meeting OF the Columbia River FISH
ermen'S Protective Union held al Liberty
Hall on December 9Th. 1851. il was unani-
mOuSly resolved that the established prices
OF labor. as adopted last season by this I'M
ion, be upheld this coming season. Ia wit
for Knitting, Il cent per mesh for Hanging
and Selveging net, SIS; for Days Work
OF hours. $3.50; and that no machine or
Chinese made nets will be tolerated or used
by any member of this Union.
IL was also further resolved that any nets
madeiby non-UnioR men will be not fished
by members OF this Union.
by order Of the c. r. i p. Onion.
ALIEN. SUTTON.
Secretary
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1887-12-07

TIE federal government of Switzer-
land has gone into the liquor business
on the principle that has already been
tested in the Scandinavian kingdoms.
The dIstillers are required to sell only
TO the government, which will guaran-
tee the quality of the liquor it sells in
regulated shops. The plan includes
only rectifed spirits or concentrated
alcohol. Diffused alcohol, such as is
contained in wine and in cider, is not
considered in this legislation. As
Switzerland has the credit, by statis-
tics, Of being the drunkenest country
in Europe, the new plan is an effort to
regulate prices, number and quality
of the drains sold to habitual consum-
ers. 1t looks like very remote stage
of repressive control, but is considered
TO be beginning in that direction.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1887-12-07

The government experiments this
year in making sugar from sorghum
are said to have been very successful.
On fair soil the yield of cane was
twelve tons. The average yield OF su-
gar per acre was about fifteen hundred
pounds, and of syrup $50 gallons. 1t
is claimed that at this rate, even at the
present low price of sugar, the bust
ness of making sugar from sorghum
would be very profitable.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1887-12-07

SCIENTISTS claim that tide-mill To-
Gated at the Bay of Fundy would gen.
crate 000-horse-po power twelve hours
in a day This distributed electric
ally and sold TO every state in the
Union would save the coal supply.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1887-12-07
DEMOCRATIC
NOMINATING CONVENTION.

At a meeting OF Democrats held in the
county court room, Nov. 18Th. for the con-
sideration OF the coming city election, the
County Democratic Central Committee were
authorized 10 make the following call tor a
City Democratic Nominating Convention:
All Democrats and all Others not identi-
fed with any other political organization,
and intending TO vote the Democratic tick
ct, who are entitled TO vote at the coming
city election. are requested 10 assemble i'm
MASS CONVENTION in the Opera House.
on the evening OF December 9th. NJ = 30
o'clock.
You will then proceed 10 nominate can
didates for the various city offices. and
transact such other business as may proper
ly may be brought before that convention.
ALFRED KINNEY,
Chairman of Com.
x. l.. BOYLE. See,
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1887-12-07
Cannery For Sale.
The Pacific Union cannery,

At Upper town Is offered for sale with Five
Lots on which the property IL situated and
adjacent two Of the lots having a water
frontage OF loo feet on the ship channel Of
the Columbia river. The cannery and be-
longings is in good order throughout. For
further particulars inquire 1T this ONCE.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1887-12-07

The East Oregonian makes Just
and sensible comment on the recent
decision of Judges Sawyer and Deady
in the case wherein Judge Denny
sued ]. G. Dodson, the res gesta of
which was the question whether the
government grant to the Northern
Pacific railway conferred a present
title. Our eastern state contemporary
pertinently asks: "What was the ne
cessity of providing for patents, if the
grant itself conferred a present titleg"
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1887-12-07
NEW TO-DAY.
Astoria Art Studio.
RE-0PENED.
Mrs. Allie M. Davidson,

Has re-Opened her Glasses for lessons in oil
Water Color. CrayOn. Pastel, etc.
Painting on Plush, Velvet and Satin.
Terms, 50 cents per lesson.
Hours, TO Il, and to 4 30.
Room \, over old City Book store.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1887-12-07
For Supt. of Streets.

/ take this method of announcing myself
As a candidate for the office of Superintend-
ent of Streets of this city, subject 10 the ac-
tiOn Of the Democratic nominating cOnven-
ton. j. 7. LEASY.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-03-24
/. so,ENoH AND Il INDUSTRY. i 81

The Meier iron works, erected op.
posite Gouth st. Louis at cost Of
81, 500. 900, are to be started up, after
having been idle for several years.
About five hundred workmen are
employed at Berlin in the production
of shoe rosettes. The sale amounts to
about one million yearly, and the ro-
scttes are exported to all the European
countries and North and South Amer
ica.
During the past ten years the Bald
win locomotive works have made over
four thousand locomotives, of which
they have exported about nine hundred.
OF these, fully seven hundred have gone
to South America. They not only fur
nish engines to South America, but hava
supplanted English locomotives in New
Zealand. They have sent many to Aus
tralia and 20 New South les.-Phila-
delphia Press.
Prof. j. limerick, of William and
Mary College. has been studying a
meteroite which fell in that neighbor-
hood year ago, weighing about two
hundred tons. Its composition was
found to be chromium, nickel, alumi-
mum, copper, magnesium, tin, and 9th
er metals and metalloids. It contained
eighty-seven per cent. of iron in me-
tallic state. Its specific gravity was
7.412.
Railroads are now giving preference
to "sawed" ties when obtainable. They
can be transported and handled at less
expense, and make smoother track,
with less labor and less time. Sawed
ties can be made from timber that can
not be utilized for other purposes. This
branch of industry is proving profitable.
as the demand for railroad ties is in
creasing and the prices are advancing.
Chicago Tribune.
While agreeing in general with the
theory that comets have their origin
beyond the limits of the solar system,
Prof. Daniel Kirkwood finds proof that
some Of those of short period are minor
planets, whose orbits in the asteroid
zone have been changed through the
perturbing influence of the large
planets. The third comet of 1884, for
instance, seems to have been drawn
from the Asteroids by Jupiter in May,
1875.-Boston Budget.
"A new kind of nail, for attaching
mouldings and other light lumber,
which leaves no nail holes, is made
with point at each end, and with an
outwardly-projecting head or shoulder
midway between the points. The nail
is first driven into tho wood by means
of a punch, which straddles the pro-
truding point and bears on the head
When enough have been driven in the
moulding is placed over the nails and
driven down.-Boston Bulletin.
| "A well-known firm of Berlin en-
| gineers is now making device for
signaling the passage of a train by
means of mercury. The DETECTION Of
one rail of the line caused by the pass
ing of a train is caused to press upon
the elastic diaphragm of vessel fixed
under the rail, and containing mercury.
The mercury is forced up a side tube
SO as to complete an electrical circuit
and ring q bell or work some other
| indicator,
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WRECKED BY NATURE.
A Few Instances of the Destruction o.
Railway Trains by storms.

A Few Instances of the Destruction OF
Railway Trains by storms.
In "Wondcrs and Curiosities of the
Railway" some remarkable incidents
are related of the destruction of rail-
road trains by storms. At Kiowa, Kan
sas, in the year 1873, u locomotive was
swept from q railroad embankment by
q water-spout and lost in quicksand;
it has never been found.
In the summer of 1880, the town of
Monotony, on the Kansas Pacific rail-
road, was visited by terrible thunder
storm and water-spout; over six thou
sand feet of track was washed away,
and the prairie lay eight feet under
water. During the occurrence Of this
storm an entire freight-train was lost.
1t has never been found-not trace of
it-although the owners spent twenty
i've hundred dollars in the search. It
is supposed that the train was swept
away and buried under a land-slip.
This is surely one of the strangest mis-
haps ever chronicled! Some future
geologist may have a treasure-trove in
this buried train, or in its impression
on the rock.
At Potter Station, on the Union
Pacific railroad, in the autumn of 1875,
train was just pulling out from the
station, when a storm began, and in ten
seconds three was such fury of hail
and wind that the engineer deemed it
best to stop the locomotive. The hail
stones were simply great chunks of ice.
many of them three or four inches in
diameter, and of all shapes-squares,
cones, cubes and balls. The first stono
that struck the train broke a window,
and the flying glass severely injured a
lady on the face. Five minutes after
wards there was not whole light Of
glass on the south side of the train. The
windows in the Pullman cars were o1
French plate. three-cights of an inch
thick. and double. The hail broke both
thicknesses and tore the curtains into
shreds. The wooden shutters. too, were
smashed, and many of the mirrors were
broken. The deck-lights on tho tor Of
the cars were also demolished. The
dome of the engine was dented as II il
lad been pounded with a heavy weight
and the woodwork on the south side O
tho cars was plowed rs il some one hat
struck it all over with sliding blow
from q hammer. The storm laste
twenty minutes. and when the trait
moved ON the wheels crunched through
hail-stones drifted SO deep a. to imped
progress for some miles.-Yosstks Coss
p0sioR.
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SPIRITS OF THE SEA.
Ghosts Which Are Said to Have Appesre
to Seafaring Men.

Ghosts Which Are Said to Have Appeared
to seafarlnE Men.
Popular tradition asserts that tho
ghost of young man lost at seq APP
peared to his mother in Cornwall, and
that of an officer of the navy appeared
to his wife. At Nora, in Cornwall.
the Lady Sybilla sits on the rocks, look
ing seward for wrecks. The appari'
ton of smuggling crew, dripping
wet, was also seen, portending the
wreck that followed. A pilot ut st.
Ives received n ghostly warning in the
vision of man, his mouth filled with
seawced and his shoes with sand. In a
Cornish legend, tho specter of prlva-
teer captain goes off in a thunder cloud
in a mysterious ship. In the same
story, the ghost Of a shipwrecked
sailor appears. In another tale SINH
lar specter appears, and carries off his
waiting bride. The ghosts of ship
wrecked mariners arc seen, and their
cries heard, from the waves in certain
bay on Cornish coast. Scotch fisher
men and sailors have many stories
of these ghosts. The ghost of mur-
dered lady appears to her lover
at sea, in tale by Gregor, coming in
the shape of bright light assuming
the human form as it draws nearer.
She finally calls him, and he springs in.
to her arms aud disappears in flash o.
fire. In another legend, an officer seei
in a vision two boatmen bringing in the
body of third. Soon afteward, this
actually occurred, the boat in which
they were having been capsized. The
specter of woman. who died on the
scaffold, is said to have appeared to her
sailor lover, who had promised to be
faithful to her. living or dead. 1t came
in gale, accompanied by a storm cloud,
accompanied by gigantic figure. Thu
vessel was, meanwhile. sorely storm
beaten, but was delivered. when thes,
apparitions obtained possession of tho
tailor. On Solway Firth. the ghost of I
murdered lady appears in blaze of fire
On a small island. near Windermere
Scotland. called Ledge's Holm. there i
a quarry called "The Crier Of Claife.
An old legend says. a ferryman wa
hailed on dark night from the island
and went over. He came back, after
long absence, after having seen som
horrible sights, which he ever afte
refused to relate, and soon after he be
came a monk. Afterward the same cr
was heard. and the monk went over, an
succeeded in laying tho ghost in tn
quarry, where 1t still is.-F. Bassett
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WAIT.

Wait, my darling, by tho shore
Where the dreary waters moan;
You already have crossed Ger,
ON lingering here alone.
Stray not In that land Of light
Far beyond the open gate.
Lest I lose you from my sight,
Wait, my darling, darling, wait.
Mine the cross, but yours the crown;
Mine the lator, yours the rest;
You your burden have cast down
Sorrow fingers in my breast.
All the waves OF life's rude sea
Dash my bark with storm-torn sail.
Tempest still abidcs for me
You have drifted through the gale.
upon the hither shore.
You beyond the troubled tide;
Sorrow vexes you no more,
Shadows with my life abide.
Heart that never more shall ache,
Eyes that never more shall weep,
Whilst sorrow for your sake,
Lying in the last, long sleep.
Wait, my darling, by the shore,
Where the river darkly rolls;
Soon I, too. shall journey DER,
Passing to the land Of souls.
Stray not in the land Of light.
Pass not through the open gate,
Lest lose you from my sight
Wait, my darling, darling, wait.
e. ". Gunnison, In Graphic News.